A Commonplace Book

Category: bedding and beds...

  • participating in a bed race
  • a canopied four-poster bed
  • spending a day in bed, writing
  • always making the bed
  • rose petals in the sheets
  • a red carpet to bring good fortune and happiness
  • colorful sheets and bedspreads
  • fluffing the pillows
  • The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it. (Guy de Maupassant)
  • Do it big or stay in bed. (L. Kelly)
  • the feather mattresses of Swiss bedrooms
  • Bed is the poor man's opera. (A. Huxley)
  • Talking in bed ought to be easiest. Lying together there goes back so far, an emblem of two people being honest. (P. Larkin)
  • Sheets are fraught with meaning.... We cover the baby with them; hide nudity under them. Sheets are the beginning and the end: our first clothing (swaddling), and our last (the shroud). They are bandages in war, and rags when they're worn out.... We spend more time in contact with sheets than with any other item we own; they are almost a second skin. (J. Kron)

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